The Team:


Timothy Gorski ~ Director/Producer
Tim is an accomplished independent documentary filmmaker/editor with 11 Best Documentary Awards and one Telly award. He received an MFA in film from Miami Univ. of Art and Design. He has a BA in Visual Communications and an AA in Liberal Arts. In 2005 Tim was invited by the Thai government to return to post tsunami Thailand and document the recovery efforts to promote the suffering tourism industry.

Tim recently spent 5 months aboard the Sea Shepherd ship documenting the Antarctic whale wars in the Southern ocean. He has 14 years experience in the field of television and documentary filmmaking and for 10 years he taught production and animation at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. He is President of RTC Productions. Tim has filmed and volunteered in humanitarian, animal, and environmental projects around the globe and was featured on the 2005 Discovery Channel documentary, "America's Tsunami; Are we next?"

PRODUCING, DIRECTING, and EDITING
At the Edge of the World: Sea Shepherd (Antarctica Campaign Doc. - 2007)
Rising Above the Wave (Post Tsunami Doc. - 2005)
Slave to Entertainment (Orca Documentary - 2003)
The Elephant Lady (Elephant short doco - 2006)

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Tsunami Volunteer Search and Rescue on Koh Phi Phi Thailand (12/04)
Tsunami Volunteer rebuilding (06/05)
Hurricane Katrina Animal Rescue - Animal rescue assignments in Flooded St. Bernhard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. Rescued, transported, and placed over fifty animals. (10-11/05)
Wildlife Care Center, Fort Lauderdale FL - on call, wildlife rescue (02/94 - present)
Camp Olympiad, Ft. Lauderdale FL - Event Chaperone for mentally disabled adults (04/96 - 06/98)
American Red Cross - Hurricane relief / rescue training - provided care and relief for displaced families after Hurricane Andrew. (08/92 - 10/92)
BTCV - British Conservation, Wallingford England - Reconditioned 700-year-old stone footpaths in the Peak district (stone pitching). (07/00)


Mei-Ling McNamara ~ Writer/On camera talent
Mei- Ling McNamara is a writer, travel guidebook author, advocacy journalist and international development worker. Her radio work in Africa on HIV/AIDS has been featured in the 2005 World Disasters Report by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and her articles have appeared in such publications as: Travelers’ Tales (Solas Awards), Matador Travel (Traverse Awards), AlertNet (Reuters), IRIN (UN), Relief Web, Written Road, IndyMedia, and One World. Through her journalism reporting, she has helped human rights advocates in over 22 countries successfully lobby the Council of Europe, U.S. government, British Parliament and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. In 2005, she was hired to write the circulation newspaper at the UN conference for the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC).

Mei-Ling is currently authoring a new travel guidebook to Senegal with Bradt Travel Guides, and is a writer on the new Bradt Guide to Madagascar (8th ed). She holds a B.A. in English from the University of California, Davis, and a M.A. in American Poetry and Prose from the University of Essex, England. Her upcoming projects include co-hosting It’s Your World and pursuing a M.A. in International Journalism in the UK in 2008. She has lived abroad for ten years in the United Kingdom, Morocco and Madagascar, and has travelled within North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, North America, Europe and the South Pacific. She currently resides in San Francisco.



Jon Kane ~ Co-Producer / Camera
Jon Kane is a 23 year-old filmmaker from Miami, FL, who aims to create positive change through his art. Working with celluloid and digital media from a very young age, J K parted ways with FSU Film School, leaving a 3.85 GPA behind, in pursuit of film projects in the professional world.

His credits include:
Second Unit Director: ‘Call Them Blind’, a docudrama about school shootings
Director: ‘Stolen’, a film about the lives of several high school teenagers.
Director: ‘Driven Madd’, produced in association with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). Driven Madd smashes a group of teenagers lives against a wall and relives the horrors of a car accident rescue through the eyes of Fire and Rescue Officers in real time.
Producer: FUEL TV’s extreme sport show Adrenalina,
Production Assistant: ‘Transporter 2’
Production Assistant: ‘Boynton Bch. Bereavement Club’
Camera Operator: ‘Ocean Warriors,’ a documentary of the Southern Ocean whale wars.


Chuckles ~ Photography/Videography / Comic Relief
Christopher "Chuckles" Borromeo is an award winning commercial-advertising photographer. He is known for his talents working with large groups, as well as his quick thinking and problem solving skills on location.

Having worked with some of the biggest budgets in the world, Chuckles boasts jobs such as the "Sports Illustrated" Swimsuit Issue (shot on safari in South Africa), St John's Bay (shot on the Whistler-Blackcomb glacier), and theLucayan Hotel (shot on Grande Bahama Island). Chuckles has also worked on more unconventional jobs, such as Gravis Shoes, which was shot guerilla style streets of Los Angeles and the dunes, beaches and city of Cabo San Lucas)

Debbie Pagell ~ Producer
Debbie is an independent film writer/director/producer who has recently changed her focus from narrative to documentary film work after working for Turner Broadcasting for several years. She has her MA in Communications from Georgia State University and her BA from Florida State University.

Teresa Sewalelot~Meyers ~ Fundraising & Marketing Director

Teresa is an Industrial Designer with a strong background in Eastern medicine and healing. She has been a Thai Red Cross volunteer since 2004, working diligently to support the communities of Khao Lak and Ban Nam Kem. Teresa has been working in cause-related marketing for five years now, and is the Director of Cause Marketing for a major NW distillery. She merges her love of medicine and healing into the world of business.

It is important for her to continue to bring wellness and awareness to the world by volunteering, educating and loving each soul she passes.

Teresa’s company, Wellness for the World www.wellness4theworld.org manifests funds for international foundations like Bodhi fellowship, and humanitarian operations like Cultural Film Fund. Teresa is currently designing an eco-healing center in Northern Thailand. This center will provide shelter, organic gardening and a small trade’s school for the young ones in their community.

Volunteer Experience:
The Royal Thai Red Cross 2004 to present day
Thai Army
Thai Search & Rescue
Dr. Khunying Pornthip Rojanasunand (Thailand’s leading forensic scientist)

*Teresa joined Dr. Rojanasunand’s team at wat yan yao, in Takuapa, Thailand. During the tsunami aftermath.

Nick Manning

Nick is an accomplished Film Director/Producer and Fulbright Scholar who recently had the daunting task of teaching 15 students in Jakarta how to makea video documentary in just 10 days. When he discovered that many students didn't speak English, Manning perfected a way of communicating that relied on 20-second sound bites between translations.

On the last day the US Embassy representatives came to view the work. Each three-man crew finished on time: five documentaries averaging 18 minutes, with sound tracks and narration on social problems and the arts.

Nick currently teaches at Miami International University of Art and Design.

Aleks Rosenberg

Aleks Rosenberg is an award winning feature film director who brings a unique spectrum of disciplines and talents to any team. Yale University, MFA; Directing, Pratt Institute, BFA; Film / Graphic Design

For over twenty years, Aleks, as a principal of a number of successful production companies in New York and Miami, has directed and produced award winning corporate films and commercials for such clients as IBM, AT&T, Bell Labs, American Express, Chevrolet, BMW, Prudential, People Magazine, Pepsi Cola, MTV, CBS, ABC, Sprint, Avon, Marvel etc..

Aleks graduated from Yale and Pratt universities and now teaches film production at the Miami International University of Art and Design.

Presently, Aleks has just completed his 35mm feature film, Zelimo, which he wrote, produced and directed. The film won "Best Production In Feature Film" Award at the First Annual Made-In-Miami Film Festival and has been selected to open The 2002 Annual Empire Film Festival among others.
In the corporate training productions arena, Aleks has directed/produced and written/co-written over 50 training videos.

In the educational video sector, Kidsvid, Inc , of which Aleks is the CEO/director, has produced a number of successful long format videos including: Kids & Divorce -distributed by Sunburst Communications.

Aleks is president of IVM Productions